THORACOTOMY

Definition: THORACOTOMY

THORACOTOMY

Noun

1. The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Thoracotomy \Tho`ra*cot"o*my\, noun. [from Greek expression thorax to cut.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: THORACOTOMY

Domain	Definitions
Health	Surgical incision into the chest wall. (references)
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Usage Frequency: THORACOTOMY

"THORACOTOMY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THORACOTOMY" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: THORACOTOMY

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "THORACOTOMY": non-thoracotomy.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THORACOTOMY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
thoracotomy	71
procedure thoracotomy	2
picture thoracotomy	2
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Modern Translations: THORACOTOMY

Language		Translations for "THORACOTOMY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		thoracotomi. (various references)

German		Thorakotomie. (various references)

Italian		toracotomia. (various references)

Pig Latin		oracotomythay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THORACOTOMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-m-o-o-o-r-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: coatroom.
	-4 letters: throaty.
	-5 letters: cahoot, chatty, chroma, chromo, cohort, cottar, hooray, throat, tomato, tomcat, toothy, torchy, toroth.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-m-o-o-o-r-t-t-y"
	+4 letters: chemoautotrophy.
	+5 letters: monochromaticity, thrombocytopenia.
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